What Can Regression Analysis Tell the Researcher That Correlation Analysis

question 14

Multiple Choice

What can regression analysis tell the researcher that correlation analysis alone cannot?

• A) the strength of a relationship between variables
• B) the direction of a relationship between variables
• C) the probability that the relationship between variables within a research sample could have been produced by sampling error
• D) the predicted value of an outcome variable if we know the value of a case's predictor variable.

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